good week

well the shopping complex looks like its coming alone very well, although i miss Monday with a flu, i managed to spend my time in bed coming up with new ideas and it helped. worried about some angels cause of the wasted space but the site plan forces me to design at an angel. the flats are done and the clinic too. just adjustments to the shopping floor plan and we can take it to review hopefully on Monday i can start the sections and elevation, i still haven't thought about the roof plan yet. anyway on a separate thought i spent the time at home cleaning the roof and fixing the gutters, down pipes and seen more architecture techniques. was a bit scared of been so high without a safety net but we managed till late at night. we also managed to find the missing plans for the new house my father building, and got them to council this morning, and unfortunately my client is still fighting in court for his land, but the drawings i did for him are ready. oh yes and the bosses are back from vacation, so the office is buzzing with orders and work again, i printed the new office plans i had done for review and we will discuss the next step next week...for now I'm looking forward to the weekend so until next Friday bye!!!!!!!!!!!!!

week 8:kicking it old school with my nose in the books:)

So dear readers, all reader here we are again, been working for 8 weeks now, but it feels like 2 months LOL, just a little joke.
OK so the bosses are still on vacation right, but that doesn't mean the workforce can play, or does it, anyway, I have been given something that is suppose to keep my mind turning for days, with a design process. the clients brief is asking me to design a shopping complex / clinic / staff flats on one plot, which is about 5000m squared. so i think I have read about 100 books for research on this proposal, some of them that literally put me so sleep in my desk. but after all is said and done, i dot the general idea and went to work, My supervisor gave me the green light, and said the layout was well thought of and good, "thank you books, i guess".  now it was time for the parking, and according to parking standards, we needed 77 bays for our site and we had 65, big problem , but some thought, and a little magic, and we ended up with 78 bays ( by the way we went parallel on on side of the mall). once again my supervising boss gave me the thumbs up. so now we can start making the magic happen on the computer. one thing I'm stressing about is designing at an angle, because the site is angled, but still i cant wait, look out Zambia, Naphtali Mphaisha is designing a mall ho ha, watch this space.
so until next week, this is me signing out and wishing everyone a good weekend and well deserved rest
bye!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

slow week

OK so the boss lady is in Germany for two weeks, but the plans have been done, the week has been slow, but it should pick up next week with some new projects possibly coming up, as for now, I'm looking forward to a good rest this weekend. stressing a little cause of the lack of contact from the CPUT, but I'm sure all completed work was submitted. On another note got introduced to the new Miss Zambia  this week, we might be doing some work for her, so that was pretty fun, different and interesting. anyway I'm done for the week, this is me signing out, have a good weekend everyone reading.

week 6, losing my mind in a new work place

having a good week, after the Easter break, just finished part one of the drawings for council, now the boss has to get back to me, looking forward to more work this week, and i got showed how to finally fold plans the right way by Mr wachata. hopefully that skill will came in hand soon, as we were folding what seemed like hundred's of plans, late Thursday afternoon, when the electricity went off, due to other buildings playing with cables lol.

keeping up with the times

one month in the the job, great fun!!!!. Getting  to see architectural in another point of view. worked on some big projects, starting with the Z.I.O.H and now working on our future office (big task though). worked under the two bosses, with unique styles. today we had a press conference to officially open construction of the ZPPA building, that should be completed in January next month, cant wait!!. now its time to rest and enjoy the Zambian nightlife. till next week, bye ;)

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